Ferryside
Ferryside is a town in the community of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is 8.5 miles (13.7 kilometres) south of Carmarthen near the mouth of the River Tywi. Initially a ferryboat going across, after that coming to be a fishing village, it has actually established as a vacation and also retired life area. The village has its very own lifeboat station and was the first town in the UK to change from analogue to digital television. Originating as a landing-place on the ferryboat course to Llansteffan (the ferry was utilized by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside established as an angling town. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the village developed after 1852, when it came to be connected to Carmarthen and Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.